| Titles | Order |
| Crowded years; the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo by William Gibbs McAdoo | Nonfiction-Memoir, 1931 |
| Outpost of empire : the story of the founding of San Francisco by Herbert Eugene Bolton | Scholarship-History, 1931 |
| Adventures of a Novelist by Gertrude Atherton | Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1932 |
| The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens by Lincoln Steffens | Nonfiction-Memoir, Silver, 1932 |
| Nur Mahal by Harold Lamb | General Literature, Silver, 1932 |
| The pursuit of death: A study of Shelley's poetry by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz | Scholarship-Study, Silver, 1933 |
| San Francisco: A Pageant by Charles Caldwell Dobie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1933 |
| The Lord's Annointed by Ruth Eleanor McKee | General Literature, Silver, 1934 |
| The Revolutionary Emperor Joseph II Second of Austria by Saul Kussiel Padover | Scholarship-History, Silver, 1934 |
| The Saga of the Comstock Lode by George D. Lyman | Scholarship, Gold, 1934 |
| Laughter Out of the Ground; A Novel in Cadence by Robin Lampson | General Literature, Silver, 1935 |
| San Francisco tales by Charles Dobie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1935 |
| Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck | General Literature, Silver, 1935 |
| God and man's destiny by Hartley Burr Alexander | Scholarship, Gold, 1936 |
| In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck | General Literature, Silver, 1936 |
| Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart | Scholarship, Silver, 1936 |
| Snow covered wagons : a pioneer epic : the Donner party expedition, 1846-1847 by Julia Cooley Altrocchi | Scholarship, Silver, 1936 |
| The early Stuarts, 1603-1660 by Godfrey Davies | Scholarship, Silver, 1937 |
| The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leonard Q. Ross | General Literature, Silver, 1937 |
| Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell | Scholarship, Gold, 1937 |
| The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific by Oscar Lewis | Scholarship, Silver, 1938 |
| East of the Giants by George R. Stewart | General Literature, Silver, 1938 |
| Enchanted Vagabonds by Dana Lamb | Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1938 |
| Bright heritage by Mary Virginia Provines | General Literature, Silver, 1939 |
| Flowering Earth by Donald Culross Peattie | Scholarship, Silver, 1939 |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | General Literature ∙ Silver ∙ 1939 |
| Land Below the Wind by Agnes Newton Keith | Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1939 |
| San Francisco's Literary Frontier by Franklin Walker | Scholarship, Gold, 1939 |
| The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts by William Saroyan | General Literature, Silver, 1939 |
| Blue Willow by Doris Gates | Juvenile, Silver, 1940 |
| A Diplomatic History of the American People by Thomas A. Bailey | Scholarship, Gold, 1940 |
| The March of the Barbarians by Harold Lamb | Scholarship, Silver, 1940 |
| My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan | Nonfiction-Memoir, Silver, 1940 |
| The Structure of Art by Carl Thurston | Scholarship, Gold, 1940 |
| Wild Geese Calling by Stewart Edward White | General Literature, Silver, 1940 |
| Anybody's Gold: The Story of California's Mining Towns by Joseph Henry Jackson | General Literature, Silver, 1941 |
| Lord of Alaska; Baranov and the Russian Adventure by Hector Chevigny | Nonfiction, Gold, 1941 |
| Many Mexicos by Lesley Byrd Simpson | Scholarship, Gold, 1941 |
| A history of historical writing by James Westfall Thompson | Scholarship, Gold, 1942 |
| The Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters | Fiction, Silver, 1942 |
| Proud Riders, and Other Poems by H.L. Davis | Poetry, 1942 |
| I Remember Christine: (A Novel) by Oscar Lewis | General Literature, Silver, 1942 |
| The Stranger in Big Sur by Lillian Bos Ross | Fiction, Silver, 1942 |
| Brothers under the skin by Carey McWilliams | Nonfiction, Gold, 1943 |
| The Legacy of Nazism: The Economic and Social Consequences of Totalitarianism by Frank Munk | Scholarship, Gold, 1943 |
| Spurs for Antonia by Katherine Wigmore Eyre | Juvenile, Silver, 1943 |
| Trio by Dorothy Baker | General Literature, Silver, 1943 |
| Wide is the Gate by Upton Sinclair | Fiction, Silver, 1943 |
| Caesar and Christ by Will Durant | Nonfiction, Gold, 1944 |
| Captain Retread by Donald Hough | Fiction, Silver, 1944 |
| Mystery at Thunderbolt House by Howard Pease | Juvenile, Silver, 1944 |
| One Day on Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar | General Literature, Silver, 1944 |
| Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace by Thomas A. Bailey | Scholarship, Gold, 1944 |
| The Epic of Latin America by John A. Crow | Scholarship, Gold, 1945 |
| High Bonnet by Idwal Jones | Fiction, Silver, 1945 |
| A Lion Is in the Streets by Adria Locke Langley | General Literature, Silver, 1945 |
| Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood by John Jenkins Espey | Nonfiction, Gold, 1945 |
| The Singing Cave by Margaret Carver Leighton | Juvenile, Silver, 1945 |
| South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen | Nonfiction, Silver, 1945 |
| Big Tree by Mary Buff | Fiction, Gold, 1946 |
| The Christian heritage in America by George Percy Hedley | Nonfiction, Silver, 1946 |
| Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement by George E. Mowry | Nonfiction, Silver, 1946 |
| The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization, 1607-1763 by Louis B. Wright | Scholarship, Gold, 1947 |
| Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold | Fiction, Gold, 1947 |
| The great forest by Richard Gordon Lillard | Nonfiction, Silver, 1947 |
| The Trial of Sören Qvist by Janet Lewis | General Literature, Silver, 1947 |
| The Age of the Great Depression 1929-1941: A History of American Life by Dixon Wecter | Scholarship, Gold, 1948 |
| The Big Divide by David Lavender | Nonfiction, Silver, 1948 |
| The Legend of Henry Ford by Keith Sward | Nonfiction, Silver, 1948 |
| The Nine Brides and Granny Hite by Neill Compton Wilson | Fiction, Silver, 1948 |
| Seabird by Holling C. Holling | Juvenile, Silver, 1948 |
| The Sky and the Forest by C. S. Forester | Fiction, Gold, 1948 |
| Woman with a Sword by Hollister Noble | General Literature, Silver, 1948 |
| At The Palace Gates by Helen Rand Parish | Juvenile, Silver, 1949 |
| The beast in his hunger; poems by Harry Brown | Poetry, Silver, 1949 |
| Epicurus My Master by Max Radin | Fiction, Silver, 1949 |
| The Journey of Simon McKeever by Albert Maltz | Fiction, Gold, 1949 |
| Revolt in San Marcos by Robert Carver North | Fiction, Silver, 1949 |
| To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy | Nonfiction, Silver, 1949 |
| About Mrs. Leslie by Viña Delmar | Fiction, Silver, 1950 |
| Bridal Journey by Dale Van Every | Fiction, Gold, 1950 |
| Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong | Nonfiction, Silver, 1950 |
| Sea Road to the Indies: An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count Vidigueira by Henry Hersch Hart | Nonfiction, Gold, 1950 |
| Thomas and the Red Headed Angel by Marion Garthwaite | Juvenile, Silver, 1950 |
| Ark of Empire by Idwal Jones | Nonfiction, Silver, 1951 |
| The Negro and the Communist Party by Wilson Record | Nonfiction, Silver, 1951 |
| Sandra and the Right Prince by Mildred Napier Anderson | Fiction, Gold, 1951 |
| Tracy's Tiger by William Saroyan | Fiction, Silver, 1951 |
| The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer | Nonfiction, Gold, 1951 |
| Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution (Cal 138) by Walton Bean | Nonfiction, Gold, 1952 |
| Winds of Morning by H.L. Davis | Fiction, Silver, 1952 |
| Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | Fiction, Silver, 1953 |
| The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann | Fiction, Gold, 1953 |
| It's good to be black by Ruby Berkley Goodwin | Nonfiction, Gold, 1953 |
| Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner | Nonfiction, Silver, 1954 |
| Beyond the Hungry Country by Louise A. Stinetorf | Fiction, Silver, 1954 |
| The Epics of Everest by Leonard Wibberley | Fiction, Silver, 1954 |
| Glory, God and Gold: A Narrative History of the Southwest by Paul I. Wellman | Nonfiction, Silver, 1954 |
| Howells and the age of realism by Everett Carter | Nonfiction, Gold, 1954 |
| The Nightmare by C. S. Forester | Fiction, Gold, 1954 |
| Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh | Nonfiction, Gold, 1955 |
| The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley | Fiction, Silver, 1955 |
| The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester | Fiction, Silver, 1955 |
| Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko | Nonfiction, Gold, 1955 |
| The Streets of San Francisco by Samuel Dickson | Nonfiction, Silver, 1955 |
| James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798 by Page Smith | Nonfiction, Silver, 1956 |
| The Long Watch by Elizabeth Linington | Fiction, Silver, 1956 |
| Men of the Western Waters by Dale Van Every | Californiana, Silver, 1956 |
| The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme | Nonfiction, Gold, 1956 |
| Spook, the Mustang by Harlan Thompson | Fiction, Silver, 1956 |
| The Braintree Mission by Nicholas E. Wyckoff | Fiction, Silver, 1957 |
| David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd | Juvenile, Silver, 1957 |
| Elizabethans at Home by Lu Emily Pearson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1957 |
| The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee | Fiction, Silver, 1957 |
| Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks | Fiction, Silver, 1957 |
| San Francisco Bay by Harold Gilliam | Californiana, Silver, 1957 |
| The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 by George E. Mowry | Nonfiction, Silver, 1958 |
| Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950 by David Lavender | Nonfiction, Silver, 1958 |
| Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold | Nonfiction, Gold, 1958 |
| Montgomery and the Portsmouth by Fred Blackburn Rogers | Californiana, Silver, 1958 |
| The Sergeant by Dennis Murphy | Fiction, Silver, 1958 |
| Warlock by Oakley Hall | Fiction, Gold, 1958 |
| Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox by John Chester Miller | Nonfiction, Gold, 1959 |
| The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned by William Bronson | Californiana, Silver, 1959 |
| The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917 by Henry Farnham May | Nonfiction, Silver, 1959 |
| Flight from Ashiya by Elliott Arnold | Fiction, Gold, 1959 |
| Thaddeus Stevens : Scourge of the South by Fawn M. Brodie | Nonfiction, Silver, 1959 |
| The Thirteenth Apostle by Eugene Vale | Fiction, Silver, 1959 |
| This Is The Desert story of America's Arid Region by Phil Ault | Juvenile, Silver, 1959 |
| Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 by George Dangerfield | Nonfiction, Gold, 1960 |
| Hawaii, the Aloha State by Helen Bauer | Juvenile, Silver, 1960 |
| A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1960 |
| The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 by Allan Nevins | Nonfiction, Silver, 1960 |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone | Fiction, Silver, 1961 |
| Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 by Dale Van Every | Nonfiction, Silver, 1961 |
| The Gray Sea Raiders by Gordon D. Shirreffs | Juvenile, Silver, 1961 |
| Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber | Californiana, Silver, 1961 |
| Mila 18 by Leon Uris | Fiction, Gold, 1961 |
| Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer | Nonfiction, Gold, 1961 |
| Adolph Sutro, a biography by Robert E. Stewart | Nonfiction, Silver, 1962 |
| The Everlasting Fire by Jonreed Lauritzen | Fiction, Silver, 1962 |
| First woman ambulance surgeon, Emily Barringer by Iris Noble | Juvenile, Silver, 1962 |
| Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox [Revised and Expanded Edition] by Heinz Politzer | Nonfiction, Gold, 1962 |
| Heart of the Wild by Chet Schwarzkopf | Fiction, Silver medal, 1962 |
| John Adams by Page Smith | Nonfiction, Gold, 1962 |
| Ah, Julian! A memoir of Julian Brodetsky by Wibberley Leonard | Nonfiction, Silver, 1963 |
| A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky | Nonfiction, Gold, 1963 |
| James Gibbons Huneker, critic of the seven arts by Arnold T. Schwab | Nonfiction, Silver, 1963 |
| The Keys and the Candle by Maryhale Woolsey | Juvenile, Silver, 1963 |
| South from San Francisco by Frank Merriman Stanger | Californiana, Silver, 1963 |
| Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 by C. D. O'Malley | Nonfiction, Gold, 1964 |
| Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin by Leon Uris | Fiction, Silver, 1964 |
| The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail by Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1964 |
| The Man by Irving Wallace | Fiction, Silver, 1964 |
| Sarah & the Senator by Robert Henry Kroninger | Californiana, Silver, 1964 |
| A Spell is Cast by Eleanor Cameron | Juvenile, Silver, 1964 |
| Arfive by A.B. Jr Guthrie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1965 |
| Campion Towers by John Louis Beatty | Juvenile, Silver, 1965 |
| The Final Challenge: The American Frontier, 1804-1845 by Dale Van Every | Nonfiction, Silver, 1965 |
| Mein Cello und ich und unsere Begegnungen by Gregor Piatigorsky | Nonfiction, Silver, 1965 |
| Oil, land, and politics; the California career of Thomas Robert Bard by W. H. Hutchinson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1965 |
| Selected Poems by Louis Simpson | Poetry, Silver, 1965 |
| The Year of the Death by Reuben Merliss | Fiction, Silver, 1965 |
| All the Little Heroes by Herbert Wilner | Fiction, Silver, 1966 |
| The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster by Wilfred Stone | Nonfiction, Gold, 1966 |
| Chancy and the Grand Rascal by Sid Fleischman | Californiana, Silver, 1966 |
| Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 by Leonard Pitt | Nonfiction, Silver, 1966 |
| The ordeal of the Constitution; the antifederalists and the ratification struggle of 1787-1788 by Robert Allen Rutland | Nonfiction, Silver, 1966 |
| The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers by Melba Berry Bennett | Nonfiction, Gold, 1966 |
| All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1967 |
| Fathers by Herbert Gold | Nonfiction, Silver, 1967 |
| Fool's Gold A Biography of John Sutter by Richard Dillon | Californiana, Silver, 1967 |
| A Night of Watching by Elliott Arnold | Fiction, Gold, 1967 |
| Robert E. Lee: A Portrait by Margaret Sanborn | Nonfiction, Gold, 1967 |
| The rose of solitude by William Everson | Poetry, Silver, 1967 |
| Silent ship, silent sea by Robb White | Juvenile, Silver, 1967 |
| The young Stalin; the early years of an elusive revolutionary by Edward Ellis Smith | Nonfiction, Silver, 1967 |
| Airport by Arthur Hailey | Fiction, Silver, 1968 |
| Edward L. Thorndike: The Sane Positivist by Geraldine JonCich Clifford | Nonfiction, Gold, 1968 |
| Everyman's Eden; a history of California by Ralph Joseph Roske | Californiana, Silver, 1968 |
| Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation by William Weber Johnson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1968 |
| The Immigrant Upraised: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America by Andrew F. Rolle | Nonfiction, Silver, 1968 |
| The Cay by Theodore Taylor | Juvenile, Silver, 1969 |
| The Great Betrayal by Audrie Girdner | Californiana, Silver, 1969 |
| The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books by Eleanor Cameron | Juvenile, Silver, 1969 |
| With Bold Knife and Fork by M. F. K. Fisher | Nonfiction, Gold, 1969 |
| Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India by Stephen N. Hay | Nonfiction, Gold, 1970 |
| Crimson Ramblers of the World, Farewell by Jessamyn West | Fiction, Silver, 1970 |
| The El Dorado Trail by Ferol Egan | Californiana, Silver, 1970 |
| Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time by Will Durant | Nonfiction, Silver, 1970 |
| Jonah and the great fish by Clyde Robert Bulla | Juvenile, Silver, 1970 |
| The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü | Nonfiction, Silver, 1970 |
| Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles | Juvenile, Silver, 1971 |
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines | Fiction, Silver, 1971 |
| The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty | 1971 |
| The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California by Alexander Saxton | Californiana, Silver, 1971 |
| More under Saturn (The Wesleyan poetry program v. 58) by William Dickey | Poetry, Silver, 1971 |
| Textile Art in the Church by Marion P. Ireland | Nonfiction, Silver, 1971 |
| Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill by Travis Bogard | Nonfiction, Gold, 1972 |
| Monterey by Augusta Fink | Californiana, Silver, 1972 |
| The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner | Fiction, Silver, 1972 |
| Samurai of Gold Hill by Yoshiko Uchida | Juvenile, Silver, 1972 |
| Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 by Ferol Egan | Nonfiction, Silver, 1972 |
| Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr | Nonfiction, Gold, 1973 |
| Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 by Jay Monaghan | Californiana, Silver, 1973 |
| The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker | Fiction, Silver, 1973 |
| Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by John Niven | Nonfiction, Silver, 1973 |
| Living together : new and selected poems by Edgar Bowers | Poetry, Silver, 1973 |
| Steinbeck Country by Steve Crouch | Nonfiction, Gold, 1973 |
| Yours, And Mine by Judith Rascoe | Fiction, Silver, 1973 |
| Against the law;: The Nixon Court and criminal justice by Leonard W. Levy | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski | Nonfiction, Gold, 1974 |
| The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| An Everyday History of Somewhere by Ray Raphael | Californiana, Gold, 1974 |
| Love Out of Season by Ella Leffland | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| The paper party by Don Freeman | Juvenile, Silver, 1974 |
| A Time for Titans by Viña Delmar | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant | Nonfiction, Silver, 1975 |
| The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton | Fiction, Silver, 1975 |
| Nothing seemed impossible: William C. Ralston and early San Francisco (Western biography series) by David Sievert Lavender | Californiana, Silver, 1975 |
| The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar by Peter Ward Fay | Nonfiction, Silver, 1975 |
| The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated by Brian M. Fagan | Nonfiction, Gold, 1975 |
| Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed by Robert A. Rosenstone | Nonfiction, Silver, 1975 |
| Adult Bookstore by Karl Shapiro | Poetry, Silver, 1976 |
| Jack Straw's Castle by Thom Gunn | Poetry, Gold, 1976 |
| A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution by Page Smith | Nonfiction, Gold, 1976 |
| Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber | Nonfiction, Silver, 1976 |
| The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1976 |
| Botanical Prints by Henry Evans | Nonfiction, Silver, 1977 |
| Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation by Ferol Egan | Nonfiction, Silver, 1977 |
| Haywire by Brooke Hayward | Nonfiction, Silver, 1977 |
| In Mediterranean Air by Ann Stanford | Poetry, Silver, 1977 |
| The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived by Ingrid Rimland | First Fiction, Gold, 1977 |
| The Dark Range by David Rains Wallace | Californiana, Silver, 1978 |
| Germany 1866-1945 by Gordon A. Craig | Nonfiction, Silver, 1978 |
| Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg | Fiction, Gold, 1978 |
| North of Danger by Dale Fife | Juvenile, Silver, 1978 |
| Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend by Charles W. Jones | Nonfiction, Silver, 1978 |
| A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey | First Fiction, Silver, 1978 |
| Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack | Nonfiction, Silver, 1979 |
| The Fool and the Dancing Bear by Pamela Stearns | Juvenile, Silver, 1979 |
| The Morning Star by Kenneth Rexroth | Poetry, Silver, 1979 |
| Sea Glass by Laurence Yep | Juvenile, Silver, 1979 |
| Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China by Michael Sullivan | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1979 |
| The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash | Nonfiction, Silver, 1979 |
| The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan | First Fiction, Gold, 1979 |
| Flight of the Sparrow by Julia Cunningham | Juvenile, Gold, 1980 |
| The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman | Juvenile, Silver, 1980 |
| The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp | Nonfiction, Silver, 1980 |
| impossible appetites by James Fetler | Fiction, Silver, 1980 |
| A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster | Nonfiction, Silver, 1980 |
| Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner | Nonfiction, Gold, 1980 |
| Family: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by Herbert Gold | Fiction, Silver, 1981 |
| Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez | Nonfiction, Gold, 1981 |
| A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida | Juvenile, Silver, 1981 |
| Poems Old and New: 1918-1978 by Janet Lewis | Poetry, Silver, 1981 |
| Will's Boy: A Memoir by Wright Morris | Nonfiction, Silver, 1981 |
| The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience by J. S. Holliday | Californiana, Gold, 1981 |
| The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff | Nonfiction, Gold, 1982 |
| The Infinite Passion of Expectation by Gina Berriault | Fiction, Silver, 1982 |
| Spacks Street : new & selected poems by Barry Spacks | Poetry, Silver, 1982 |
| Story for a Black Night by Clayton Bess | First Fiction, Silver, 1982 |
| Winemaking in California by Ruth Teiser | Californiana, Gold, 1982 |
| Collected Poems, 1930-83 by Josephine Miles | Poetry, Silver, 1983 |
| Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness by Mark Owens | Juvenile, Silver, 1983 |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary | Juvenile, Silver, 1983 |
| A Dime to Dance By by Walter Walker | First Fiction, Silver, 1983 |
| The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1983 |
| French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean V. Bony | Nonfiction, Gold, 1983 |
| A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines | Fiction, Silver, 1983 |
| The Klamath Knot by David Rains Wallace | Californiana, Silver, 1983 |
| Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet by Galen Rowell | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1983 |
| Above Paris by Pierre Salinger | Nonfiction, Silver, 1984 |
| Celebrating Italy by Carol Field | Notable Contribution to Publishishing, Silver, 1984 |
| European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries (New Directions Paperback) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry, Silver, 1984 |
| The Hill Towns of Italy by Carol Field | Notable Contribution to Publishishing, Silver, 1984 |
| Monkey Puzzle and Other Poems by Myra Cohn Livingston | Juvenile, Silver, 1984 |
| Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr | Fiction, Silver, 1984 |
| Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn | First Fiction, Silver, 1984 |
| The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine by Doris Muscatine | Californiana, Gold, 1984 |
| Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 by Thomas Albright | California, Gold, 1985 |
| Early light (University of Utah Press poetry series) by W. S. Di Piero | Poetry, Silver, 1985 |
| Face by Cecile Pineda | Fiction, Silver, 1985 |
| Greasy Lake: and Other stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle | Fiction, Silver, 1985 |
| A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof | Nonfiction, Gold, 1985 |
| Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel | Fiction, Silver, 1985 |
| Willow Maiden by Meghan Collins | Juvenile, Silver, 1985 |
| Birds Landing by Ernest Finney | Fiction, Silver, 1986 |
| France, Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber | Nonfiction, Gold, 1986 |
| Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker | Nonfiction, Silver, 1986 |
| The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth | Californiana, Gold, 1986 |
| Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1985 by Gary Snyder | Poetry, Silver, 1986 |
| Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen A. Rowell | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1986 |
| Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems by Timothy Steele | Poetry, Silver, 1986 |
| Small Business (Contemporary American Fiction) by Tom Parker | First Fiction, Silver, 1986 |
| And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts | Nonfiction, Silver, 1987 |
| Bitter Melon by Jeff Gillenkirk | Californiana, Silver, 1987 |
| Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard | Nonfiction, Gold, 1987 |
| Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton | First Fiction, Silver, 1987 |
| Nell's Quilt by Susan Terris | Juvenile, Silver, 1987 |
| Unremembered Country by Susan Griffin | First Fiction, Silver, 1987 |
| Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey | Nonfiction, Silver, 1987 |
| World's End by T. C. Boyle | Fiction, Silver, 1987 |
| The Collected Poems by Czesław Miłosz | Poetry, Silver, 1988 |
| Green Architecture & The Agrarian Garden by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon | Nonfiction, Silver, 1988 |
| Julia Morgan, Architect by Sara Holmes Boutelle | Californiana, Gold, 1988 |
| Of Gravity and Angels by Jane Hirshfield | Poetry, Silver, 1988 |
| Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings by Herschel B. Chipp | Nonfiction, Silver, 1988 |
| Step into the Night by Joanne Ryder | Juvenile, Silver, 1988 |
| The Way to the Western Sea by David Lavender | Nonfiction, Silver, 1988 |
| What is It Then Between Us?: Stories (Collier Fiction) by Ehud Havazelet | Fiction, Silver, 1988 |
| Dead Languages by David Shields | Poetry, Silver, 1989 |
| Denial of Disaster by Gladys C. Hansen | Californiana, Gold, 1989 |
| Fortress (Wesleyan Poetry) by Brenda Hillman | Poetry, Silver, 1989 |
| Human Wishes by Robert Hass | Poetry, Silver, 1989 |
| The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | Fiction, Silver, 1989 |
| Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki | Nonfiction, Gold, 1989 |
| America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp | Nonfiction, Silver, 1990 |
| Babushka's Doll by Patricia Polacco | Juvenile, Silver, 1990 |
| Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones | Californiana, Gold, 1990 |
| O California! : nineteenth and early twentieth century California landscapes and observations by Stephen Vincent | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1990 |
| Even Now by Michelle Latiolais | Fiction, Silver, 1990 |
| The Knight, Death and the Devil by Ella Leffland | Nonfiction, Silver, 1990 |
| Limbo River by Rick Hillis | Fiction, Silver, 1990 |
| Sacred Mountains of the World by Edwin Bernbaum | Nonfiction, Gold, 1990 |
| Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook | Nonfiction, Gold, 1991 |
| Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women by Susan Faludi | Nonfiction, Silver, 1991 |
| Farming on the Edge by John Hart | Californiana, Gold, 1991 |
| Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting | Juvenile, Silver, 1991 |
| Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty | Juvenile, Silver, 1991 |
| Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen | Fiction, Silver, 1991 |
| Provinces by Czesław Miłosz | Poetry, Silver, 1991 |
| Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler | Fiction, Silver, 1991 |
| What Work Is by Philip Levine | Poetry, Silver, 1991 |
| A Bowl of Mischief by Ellen Kindt McKenzie | Juvenile, Silver, 1992 |
| Cantora by Sylvia Lopez-Medina | First Novel, Silver, 1992 |
| Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco | Juvenile, Silver, 1992 |
| Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez | Nonfiction, Silver, 1992 |
| Earthquake at Dawn by Kristiana Gregory | Juvenile, Silver, 1992 |
| Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard by Robert V. Hine | Californiana, Gold, 1992 |
| Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy 1800-1814 by Proctor Patterson Jones | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1992 |
| Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith | Fiction, Silver, 1992 |
| Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz | Nonfiction, Gold, 1992 |
| When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom | Fiction, Gold, 1992 |
| The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life by Kenneth R. Trapp | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1993 |
| Bull Run by Paul Fleischman | Juvenile, Silver, 1993 |
| Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep | Juvenile, Silver, 1993 |
| Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say | Juvenile, Silver, 1993 |
| The Great Central Valley by Stephen Johnson | Californiana, Silver, 1993 |
| Lost Body (National Poetry Series) by Terry Ehret | Poetry, Silver, 1993 |
| No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture by Allan Temko | Nonfiction, Silver, 1993 |
| Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes | Nonfiction, Gold, 1993 |
| Tuscaloosa: A novel by W. Glasgow Phillips | First Novel, Silver, 1993 |
| Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman | Juvenile, Silver, 1994 |
| The October Palace: Poems by Jane Hirshfield | Poetry, Silver, 1994 |
| The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Peter N. Carroll | Juvenile, Silver, 1994 |
| The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin | Fiction, Silver, 1994 |
| The Philosopher's Club by Kim Addonizio | Poetry, Silver, 1994 |
| Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein | Nonfiction, Silver, 1994 |
| Smoky Night by Eve Bunting | Juvenile, Silver, 1994 |
| Two Eagles / Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the United States-Mexico Borderlands by Tupper Ansel Blake | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1994 |
| The ZOO WHERE YOU'RE FED TO GOD: A NOVEL by Michael Ventura | Fiction, Silver, 1994 |
| Canto Familiar by Gary Soto | Juvenile, Silver, 1995 |
| The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci | Juvenile, Silver, 1995 |
| Jackson Street by John A. Miller | First Work, Gold, 1995 |
| Lights & Mysteries by Thomas Centolella | Poetry, Silver, 1995 |
| Naming the Spirits by Lawrence Thornton | Fiction, Silver, 1995 |
| Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic by Galen Rowell | Nonfiction, Silver, 1995 |
| Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America by Mike Rose | Nonfiction, Silver, 1995 |
| Reckless Driver by Lisa Vice | First Work, Silver, 1995 |
| Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler | Poetry, Silver, 1995 |
| A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin | Juvenile, Silver, 1995 |
| A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer | Juvenile, Silver, 1996 |
| Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995 by Carolyn Kizer | Poetry, Silver, 1996 |
| Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D. J. Waldie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1996 |
| Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime | Nonfiction, Silver, 1996 |
| Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder | Juvenile, Silver, 1996 |
| Sacred Dust by David Hill | First Work of Fiction, Silver, 1996 |
| Storm over Mono by John Hart | Californiana, Gold, 1996 |
| Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass | Poetry, Silver, 1996 |
| Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault | Fiction, Silver, 1996 |
| Circumnavigation by Steve Lattimore | First Fiction, Silver, 1997 |
| Creek Walk and Other Stories by Molly Giles | Fiction, Silver, 1997 |
| Le Divorce by Diane Johnson | Fiction, Gold, 1997 |
| The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s by Kevin Starr | Californiana, Silver, 1997 |
| A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions Paperbook) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry, Silver, 1997 |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond | Nonfiction, Gold, 1997 |
| The Hired Hand by Robert D. San Souci | Juvenile, Silver, 1997 |
| Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry W. Greene | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1997 |
| All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer | Nonfiction, Silver, 1998 |
| The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild | Poetry, Silver, 1998 |
| Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal | Fiction, Silver, 1998 |
| Harvest Son by David Mas Masumoto | Californiana, Silver, 1998 |
| Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang | First Fiction, Silver, 1998 |
| King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild | Nonfiction, Gold, 1998 |
| Lost Lake: Stories by Mark Slouka | Fiction, Silver, 1998 |
| Mrs. Dumpty by Chana Bloch | Poetry, Silver, 1998 |
| I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Wilson | Juvenile, Silver, 1998 |
| Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard | Juvenile, Silver, 1998 |
| The Artist of the Missing: A Novel by Paul La Farge | First Fiction, Silver, 1999 |
| Crooked by Laura McNeal | First Fiction, Silver, 1999 |
| Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy | Nonfiction, Gold, 1999 |
| Leaving Pico by Frank X. Gaspar | Fiction, Silver, 1999 |
| Little Bo by Julie Andrews | Young Adult, Silver, 1999 |
| The Mercy: Poems by Philip Levine | Poetry, Silver, 1999 |
| The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough | First Fiction, Gold, 1999 |
| Rush for Riches by J. S. Holliday | Californiana, Silver, 1999 |
| Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe by Brad S. Gregory | Nonfiction, Silver, 1999 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon | Fiction, Gold, 2000 |
| At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant | Young Adult, Silver, 2000 |
| California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940 by K. D. Kurutz | Publishing, Silver, 2000 |
| Jubal's Wish by Audrey Wood | Juvenile, Silver, 2000 |
| The literature of California / 1, Native American beginnings to 1945 by Al Young | Californiana, Silver, 2000 |
| Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth | Nonfiction, Gold, 2000 |
| Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F. X. Toole | First Fiction, Silver, 2000 |
| The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann | Fiction, Silver, 2000 |
| Selected Poems by Fanny Howe | Poetry, Gold, 2000 |
| American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor | Nonfiction, Gold, 2001 |
| Capturing Light by Drew Heath Johnson | Californiana, Silver, 2001 |
| Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer | Poetry, Silver, 2001 |
| Edgewater Angels: A Novel by Sandro Meallet | First Fiction, Silver, 2001 |
| Haussmann, or the Distinction: A Novel by Paul La Farge | Fiction, Silver, 2001 |
| Highwire Moon by Susan Straight | Fiction, Gold, 2001 |
| New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 by Czesław Miłosz | Poetry, Gold, 2001 |
| Notes from a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko | Young Adult, Silver, 2001 |
| Splendide Californie!: Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900 by Claudine Chalmers | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2001 |
| American Law in the Twentieth Century by Lawrence M. Friedman | Nonfiction, Silver, 2002 |
| Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez | Nonfiction, Gold, 2002 |
| Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild | Poetry, Gold, 2002 |
| The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2002 |
| The Last Good Chance: A Novel by Tom Barbash | First Fiction, Silver, 2002 |
| The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold | First Fiction, Silver, 2002 |
| The Miracle: A Novel by John L'Heureux | Fiction, Gold, 2002 |
| This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) by Elizabeth Partridge | Young Adult, Silver, 2002 |
| When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan | Juvenile, Silver, 2002 |
| Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology by David L. Ulin | Californiana, Silver, 2002 |
| American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 by Bram Dijkstra | Nonfiction, Silver, 2003 |
| The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau | Young Adult, Silver, 2003 |
| Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer | First Fiction, Silver, 2003 |
| Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins | Fiction, Gold, 2003 |
| Just a Minute! A Trickster Tale and Counting Book by Yuyi Morales | Juvenile, Silver, 2003 |
| The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire by Mark Arax | Californiana, Silver, 2003 |
| Old School by Tobias Wolff | Fiction, Silver, 2003 |
| Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson | Fiction, Silver, 2003 |
| Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2003 |
| River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit | Nonfiction, Gold, 2003 |
| The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems by August Kleinzahler | Poetry, Gold, 2003 |
| Where I Was From by Joan Didion | Special Acknowledgement, Silver, 2003 |
| Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 by Richard Steven Street | Californiana, Silver, 2004 |
| The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer | Fiction, Gold, 2004 |
| Every Night Is Ladies' Night: Stories by Michael Jaime-Becerra | First Fiction, Silver, 2004 |
| Graceland by Chris Abani | Fiction, Silver, 2004 |
| Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott | Fiction, Silver, 2004 |
| The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich | Poetry, Gold, 2004 |
| The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson | Nonfiction, Gold, 2004 |
| Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley | Juvenile, Silver, 2004 |
| Worth by A. LaFaye | Young Adult, Silver, 2004 |
| Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild | Nonfiction, Gold, 2005 |
| The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard | Young Adult, Silver, 2005 |
| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond | Nonfiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Europe Central by William T. Vollmann | Fiction, Gold, 2005 |
| The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 by Philip L. Fradkin | Californiana, Silver, 2005 |
| The Niagara River: Poems by Kay Ryan | Poetry, Gold, 2005 |
| Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz | Fiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See | Fiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Terrific by Jon Agee | Juvenile, Silver, 2005 |
| A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li | First Fiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery) by James Greer | First Fiction, Silver, 2006 |
| Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario | Nonfiction, Silver, 2006 |
| The Great Black Way by RJ Smith | Californiana, Silver, 2006 |
| Landed by Milly Lee | Juvenile, Silver, 2006 |
| New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed | Poetry, Gold, 2006 |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan | Nonfiction, Gold, 2006 |
| Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle | Fiction, Silver, 2006 |
| A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant | Young Adult, Silver, 2006 |
| Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Fiction, Gold, 2006 |
| Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems by W. S. Di Piero | Poetry, Gold, 2007 |
| Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman | Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2007 |
| Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad | Nonfiction, Gold, 2007 |
| Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City by Robert Gottlieb | Californiana, Silver, 2007 |
| Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine | Young Adult, Silver, 2007 |
| Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour | First Fiction, Silver, 2007 |
| Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher | 2007 |
| What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe | Nonfiction, Silver, 2007 |
| The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon | Fiction, Gold, 2007 |
| Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 by Gordon Chang | Contribution to Publishing, Gold, 2008 |
| The End of the Jews: A Novel by Adam Mansbach | Fiction, Gold, 2008 |
| Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams | Nonfiction, Gold, 2008 |
| Legend of a Suicide by David Vann | First Fiction, Silver, 2008 |
| Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West by Deanne Stillman | Nonfiction, Silver, 2008 |
| Practice by Dan Bellm | Poetry, Silver, 2008 |
| Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler | Poetry, Gold, 2008 |
| Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner | First Fiction, Gold, 2008 |
| We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson | Juvenile, Gold, 2008 |
| White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages | Young Adult, Gold, 2008 |
| The Bigness of the World: Stories by Lori Ostlund | First Fiction, Gold, 2009 |
| Lucky Breaks by Susan Patron | Juvenile, Gold, 2009 |
| A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit | Nonfiction, Gold, 2009 |
| The Vagrants by Yiyun Li | Fiction, Gold, 2009 |
| Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 by Mark Twain — not in English Common Knowledge | Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2010 |
| Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Gold, 2010 |
| Grandma's Gloves by Cecil Castellucci — not in English Common Knowledge | Juvenile, Gold, 2010 |
| The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Silver, 2010 |
| I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, Gold, 2010 |
| The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason — not in English Common Knowledge | First fiction, Gold, 2010 |
| Model Home by Eric Puchner | Fiction, 2010 |
| Mortal Geography (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) by Alexandra Teague — not in English Common Knowledge | Poetry, Gold, 2010 |
| State of Change, A: Forgotten Landscapes of California by Laura Cunningham — not in English Common Knowledge | Californiana, Gold, 2010 |
| Suck on the Marrow by CAMILLE DUNGY — not in English Common Knowledge | Poetry, Silver, 2010 |
| The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt — not in English Common Knowledge | Young Adult, Gold, 2010 |
| The Apothecary by Maile Meloy — not in English Common Knowledge | Young Adult, Gold, 2011 |
| Ascension by Giovanni Singleton — not in English Common Knowledge | Poetry, Gold, 2011 |
| The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, Gold, 2011 |
| Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum by Jason Felch — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Gold, 2011 |
| Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California's Desert by David Rains Wallace — not in English Common Knowledge | Californiana, Gold, 2011 |
| The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Silver, 2011 |
| Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, Silver, 2011 |
| One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin | Juvenile, 2011 |
| Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 by Chris Carlsson — not in English Common Knowledge | Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2011 |
| Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante | First Fiction, 2011 |
| God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet | Nonfiction, Gold, 2012 |
| The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor | Nonfiction, Silver, 2012 |
| Masha'allah and Other Stories by Mariah K. Young | First fiction, Silver, 2012 |
| The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate — not in English Common Knowledge | Juvenile, Gold, 2012 |
| The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson | Fiction, 2012 |
| A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois — not in English Common Knowledge | First fiction, Gold, 2012 |
| Sea and Fog (Lambda Literary Award - Lesbian Poetry) by Etel Adnan | Poetry, Gold, 2012 |
| Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson — not in English Common Knowledge | Young Adult, Gold, 2012 |
| A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss — not in English Common Knowledge | Young adult, Silver, 2012 |
| Valley of Shadows and Dreams by Melanie Light — not in English Common Knowledge | contribution to publishing, Gold, 2012 |
| Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss — not in English Common Knowledge | Juvenile, Gold, 2013 |
| The Boss (McSweeney's Poetry Series) by Victoria Chang | Poetry, Silver, 2013 |
| Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Gold, 2013 |
| A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra — not in English Common Knowledge | First Fiction, Gold, 2013 |
| Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz | Nonfiction, Silver, 2013 |
| Scrape the Willow Until It Sings: The Words and Work of Basket Maker Julia Parker by Deborah Valoma — not in English Common Knowledge | Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2013 |
| Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Brenda Hillman — not in English Common Knowledge | Poetry, Gold, 2013 |
| We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler | Fiction, Gold, 2013 |
| The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel | Gold Nonfiction, 2014 |
| Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar | Nonfiction, Silver, 2014 |
| Far Far Away by Tom McNeal — not in English Common Knowledge | Young Adult, Gold, 2014 |
| The Feel Trio by Fred Moten | Poetry, 2014 |
| The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm | Juvenile, 2014 |
| Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero | Young Adult, 2014 |
| The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin : the damn good times of a fiercely independent publisher by Kim Bancroft | Contribution to Publishing, 2014 |
| Orfeo by Richard Powers | Silver, 2014 |
| San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 by Laura A. Ackley — not in English Common Knowledge | Californiana, Gold, 2014 |
| The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol | First Fiction, Silver, 2014 |
| An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine | Gold Fiction, 2014 |
| Waiting for the Electricity: A Novel by Christina Nichol | First Fiction, Gold, 2014 |
| The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith — not in English Common Knowledge | Young Adult, Silver, 2015 |
| California's Wild Edge by Tom Killion | Californiana, 2015 |
| Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman — not in English Common Knowledge | Young Adult, Gold, 2015 |
| The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume One, 1890-1930 by James Karman — not in English Common Knowledge | Contribution to Publishing, 2015 |
| Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Gold, 2015 |
| A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, Gold, 2015 |
| Melissa by Alex Gino — not in English Common Knowledge | Juvenile, 2015 |
| NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Silver, 2015 |
| The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen — not in English Common Knowledge | 2015 |
| Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet — not in English Common Knowledge | Juvenile, 2016 |
| Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy — not in English Common Knowledge | First Fiction, 2016 |
| Ecosystems of California by Harold Mooney | Contribution to publishing, 2016 |
| Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature by Jordan Fisher Smith — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Silver, 2016 |
| The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, Gold, 2016 |
| The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, Silver, 2016 |
| An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley | Californiana, Gold, 2017 |
| Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney | Poetry, Silver, 2017 |
| Moonglow by Michael Chabon | Fiction, Gold, 2017 |
| Restless Continent by Aja Couchois Duncan | Poetry, Gold, 2017 |
| The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon | Gold, Young Adult, 2017 |
| The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater | Young Adult, 2018 |
| The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil | Gold, Fiction, 2018 |
| The California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann | Contribution to Publishing, 2018 |
| The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein | Gold, Nonfiction 2018 |
| The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham | Silver, Nonfiction 2018 |
| Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong | First Fiction, 2018 |
| Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Tongo Eisen-Martin | Poetry, 2018 |
| Maya Lin by Susan Goldman Rubin | Juvinile, 2018 |
| The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age by Robert Aquinas McNally | Californiana, 2018 |
| So Much Blue by Percival Everett | Silver, Fiction, 2018 |
| American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer | Silver, Nonfiction, 2019 |
| The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel | Gold, Californiana, 2019 |
| Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras | Silver, First Fiction, 2019 |
| The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr | Gold, Juvenile, 2019 |
| The Library Book by Susan Orlean | Gold, Nonfiction, 2019 |
| The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner | Gold, Fiction, 2019 |
| Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert | Young Adult, 2019 |
| There There by Tommy Orange | Gold Medal, Fist Fiction, 2019 |
| Total Recall by Samantha Giles | Gold, Poetry, 2019 |
| Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel by Anne Raeff | Silver, Fiction, 2019 |
